Hi Steve

I am indeed using this mainly for dial up connection based machines. Once I know there is a connection then I can ping a known site. My problem was that I didnt want the dial up dialig to appear when I was testing for a connection.

Thanks again

Jos


>Jos,
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>Are you only using this on machines that use dial-up connections? For machines with a LAN connection to the internet, I think you need to successfully hit an IP address beyond the proxy/firewall to know you are actually connected.
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